Helen Dashwood

Helen Dashwood (1942-) was a British police engineer and hacker who was active in the DeadSec hacktivist group during the 2010s.

Biography
Helen Dashwood was born in London, England in 1942, and she obtained an MSc in BioRobotics from Delft before becoming an engineer for the Metropolitan Police Service. She had a son, Brendan Dashwood, with her boyfriend Kyle Francis, and she was known to be a mystery novel enthusiast and a proud cat owner; during her service in the police, she won three Medals of Merit. She retired during the 2010s, but, in 2020, she was recruited into the hacktivist group DeadSec as a hacker.